"Tolstoy's lavish and always graphic use of detail," wrote John
Bayley, "together of course with its romance and exotic setting . .
. has made "The Cossacks the most popular of all his works." This
vibrant new translation of Tolstoy's 1862 novel, by PEN Translation
Award winner Peter Constantine, is the author's
semiautobiographical depiction of young Olenin, a wealthy,
disaffected Muscovite, who joins the Russian army and travels to
the untamed frontier of the Caucasus in search of a more authentic
life. Quartered with his regiment in a Cossack village, Olenin
revels in the glories of nature and the rough strength of the
Cossacks and Chechens. Smitten by his unrequited love for a local
girl, Maryanka, Olenin has a profound but ultimately short-lived
spiritual awakening. Try as he might to assimilate, he remains an
awkward outsider and his long search for a more enlightened and
purposeful existence comes to naught.
With the philosophical insight that would characterize Tolstoy's
later masterpieces, this long overdue major new translation is a
revelation.
"From the Hardcover edition.
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